Paul Klee

Lily Klee, Bern (acquired by descent from the artist in 1940)

Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (acquired from the above in 1946 and until circa 1950)

Hans and Erika Meyer-Benteli, Bern (acquired from the above circa 1950-52)

Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired from the above in 1966)

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1967)

Private Collection, Germany (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie’s, London, 4 February 2015, lot 5 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Bern, Kunsthalle, Gedächtnisausstellung Paul Klee, 1940, no. 187

Bern, Kunstmuseum, Paul Klee. Das Schaffen im Todesjahr, 1990, no. 252, p. 230, illustrated in colour

Stefan Frey and Josef Helfenstein, eds., Paul Klee: Verzeichnis der Werke des Jahres 1940, Stuttgart, 1991, p. 165, illustrated

The Paul Klee Foundation, ed., Paul Klee, Catalogue raisonné, vol. 9, 1940, Bern, 2005, no. 9283, p. 173, illustrated; p. 181, illustrated in colour

Josef Helfenstein, “Beschleunigung der Geschichte. Zeichen und Linie im Spätwerk Klees,” in Iris Lauterbach and Margret Stuffmann, eds., Aspekte deutscher Zeichenkunst, Munich, 2006, p. 192

Brigitte Uhde-Stahl, Paul Klees geheime Symbolik, Berlin, 2018, p. 317